Orientation & Direction (Map)
Direction and orientation — where the organisation is going and where it is now. Articles in this layer explore vision, strategy, painted pictures, and the leadership work of establishing a clear direction.
It's one of the uncomfortable truths of being in business: you are always solving problems, and there are always more of them than you could realistically solve.
I'm humbled by fractional indices and would make a poor engineer. But one thing I can do is decide — and I've learned that's rarer, and more useful, than it looks.
On strategy as one of the most human words we have: 'that which leads', and the three quiet things a real sense of direction rests on.
A practical guide to backcasting: mountains, waypoints, the grid, and the conversation everyone skips.
Why clarity matters in messy creative work. We don't need to know every turn, but without a clear destination, good people can spend enormous effort going in the wrong direction.
Time blocking looks like controlling time. Used well, it's the opposite: a way of seeing where your time actually goes
I joined a community group that met, discussed, minuted and solved precisely nothing. On the one question that fixed it — and the three that follow — none of which needs a single new tool.
Seasoned people aren't cleverer — they're better oriented. They see what's forming while others are still reacting. On awareness as a practice, weak signals, and why so much of experience is really just earlier sight.
On why real change starts in conversations, coffees and shared frustrations long before it ever reaches the org chart.